by Jeremy | Apr 17, 2020 | Sabbath Thoughts
This is something my wife got me thinking about a couple days ago. One of the more popular hashtags on social media right now is #SafeAtHome. People are using it to highlight pictures and discussions about what they and others are doing to stay safe and stay home...
by Jeremy | Apr 14, 2020 | Holy Day
My least favorite side-effect from this global quarantine has been the way it makes the holy days feel. We’re all home more often. We all have fewer opportunities (and fewer good reasons) to leave home. It’s easy to feel stuck, isolated, and trapped—even...
by Jeremy | Apr 3, 2020 | Holy Day
“For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.” What a weighty, uncomfortable verse. Members of the church in Corinth were dead—not just sick, not just inconvenienced, not just troubled, but dead—because they didn’t treat the...
by Jeremy | Mar 27, 2020 | Sabbath Thoughts
“Authentic” is the word to be these days. To call something authentic—a business, a product, a person—is an incredible compliment, and most of us instinctively know what it means. It means there’s no bait and switch. It means no one’s hands are...
by Jeremy | Mar 20, 2020 | Sabbath Thoughts
Nadab and Abihu were dead. In a single moment, the two brothers had been devoured by fire from heaven. God had killed them. But why? Nadab and Abihu were priests sons of Aaron, the high priest, the brother of Moses. And… that’s all we really know about them. The...
